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Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky is Professor of Cultural Sociology at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University. She graduated from Wellesley College and subsequently received her MA and PhD degrees from Yale University. Her dissertation, entitled 'It's just not Main Street anymore!' Mapping Out the Boundaries of Belonging in a New Immigrant Gateway, focused on a cultural analysis of debates about undocumented migrants in the United States.
Her teaching specializes in cultural sociology, migration, and research methods. Courses she teaches include Writing Sociology, Contemporary Migration Research, Migration and Displacement, and Migration, Transnationalism and the City. In these courses, she emphasizes the development of student skills in writing, analysis of migration trends, and interdisciplinary approaches to migration and transnationalism. Students value her ability to foster critical thinking and provide constructive feedback during class.
Her major publications include the book A Critical Cultural Sociological Exploration of Attitudes toward Migration in Czechia: What Lies Beneath the Fear of the Thirteenth Migrant, which focuses on the analysis of attitudes toward migration in the Czech Republic. She has also authored or co-authored articles published in renowned journals such as the European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, Migration Studies, Visual Studies and Journal of Nationalism, Memory & Language Politics.
| MU Researcher: | prof. Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky, Ph.D. |
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| MU Faculty or unit: | Faculty of Social Studies |
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1/2015 — 12/2015
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Masaryk University
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MU Development Fund
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| MU Researcher: | prof. Ing. Petr Dvořák, CSc. |
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| MU Faculty or unit: | Rector's Office |
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7/2012 — 6/2015
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Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR
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Operational Programme Education for Competitiveness
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| MU Researcher: | doc. PhDr. Ing. Radim Marada, Ph.D. |
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| MU Faculty or unit: | Faculty of Social Studies |
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1/2014 — 12/2014
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Masaryk University
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Grant Agency of Masaryk University
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Total number of publications: 33
Migration Letters, year: 2011, volume: 8, edition: 1
Migration Governance in Central and Eastern European Cities Post-2015, year: 2026, number of pages: 20 s., DOI
IPSA Companion to Political Science : A Practical Introduction to the 200 Most Important Concepts, year: 2026, number of pages: 4 s., DOI
Post-Transformation and the Civil Sphere in Central and Eastern Europe, year: 2026, number of pages: 30 s., DOI
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Sociology, year: 2026, number of pages: 14 s., DOI
Research Handbook on the Sociology of Migration, year: 2024, number of pages: 15 s., DOI
Behind the Illiberal Turn : Values in Central Europe, year: 2022, number of pages: 32 s., DOI
Populism in the Civil Sphere, edition: Vyd. 1st ed., year: 2021, number of pages: 26 s.
The Courage for Civil Repair : Narrating the Righteous in International Migration, year: 2020, number of pages: 32 s., DOI
Year: 2023, edition: Vyd. 1st ed, number of pages: 194 s.